Migraine Headaches

[Python]

Don't get them that often but this week I've had two First one was on Tuesday night - and it was a nasty one, the zig-zag flashing lines, followed by a horrible headache. Took 6 aspirins (the only thing which seems to work for me) over a period of 3 hours and went to bed. Woke up next day feeling wooly headed. Did not feel 100% all day. Miffed because the weather was not too bad and I took the car. Thursday felt better but still not 100%. Mid morning the zig zag flashing lines start up again. Swallowed another 3 aspirins. This time I didn't get the headache. Today I feel fine again.

Something triggered them off but I'm not sure what. The only two things I've eaten this week that are different to what I normally eat are a carton of honey and walnut yogurt and some cheddar cheese which has horseradish in it. Both these things I've eaten before with no problem, so I'm at a loss.

Anyone else get migraines and if so how do you deal with them? The worst thing is when I get a really bad migraine, sometimes I can't co-ordinate what I'm doing or speak properly. I know what I want to say, but can't say it. It can be a bit scary

[Bikingmomof3]

Anyone else get migraines and if so how do you deal with them?

Python feel free to PM me with any questions or concerns. I have severe migraines and go precious few days a month not in a lot of pain. How I deal with them varies but I am under the care of Neurologists.

The worst thing is when I get a really bad migraine, sometimes I can't co-ordinate what I'm doing or speak properly. I know what I want to say, but can't say it. It can be a bit scary

Okay, I have had several TIAs (mini-strokes) and quite definitely at east one stroke. What you described, lack of coordination and speaking difficulties (aphasia), are symptoms of a stroke and you need to go straightaway to hospital, so they can begin immediate neurology checks and proper treatment.

[LBTC]

Python, listen to BikingMomof3. If anyone knows the subtle differences between a migraine and a TIA or stroke, other than a neurologist, it's her!!

Get those specialists to check you out!

Hugs and healing butterflies,
~T~

[smilingcat]

Hi Python,

Everyone's migrane is different. I get the flashing lightning bolt. hypersensitivity to heat, cold, sound, NO LIGHT. I can't make any visual sense. At other times, I know each word you are saying to me but I can't comprehend what you are trying to tell me. Words just don't connect.

Years ago, my doctor prescribed me Zomed. I took it once and it made it worse. Returned the rest to my doctor. After that horrible experience, I REFUSE to take any more migrane medication.

I don't deal with my migrane. It always wakes me up in the morning, and it has its own routine. Pounding head, the lightning bolt, throwing up, then pass out from exhaustion till 5ish in the late afternoon. Before I pass out, I close all the blinds in my bedroom, shut off the radio, curl up in my bed under a cover. I want it dark as possible. When I wake up I'm totally exhausted and sweaty. I take a long cool shower to soak my head and to ease the pain. Afterwards I eat a light supper then back to bed for real sleep.

So the whole day is wasted.

It started when I was around 12/13ish. Went away for few years when I started HRT. But this year, I've been getting about once a month again

oh its not just the lightning bolts, I sometimes can't make sense of what I see like I know its a cat but not at the same time. I can't really explain. Also the image splits or distorts. It is a real struggle to do anything.

Sometimes, I think my doctor doesn't believes me... My father never believed in headache until he suffered a stroke about 20 years ago. And he was a doctor no less. People who do not suffer migrane can't really understand what we go through. And especially a child back then.

I hope yours isn't anything like mine. Stress, work and lack of sleep, alcohol seems to trigger mine.

Smilingcat

[East Hill]

It started when I was around 12/13ish. Went away for few years when I
Sometimes, I think my doctor doesn't believes me... My father never believed in headache until he suffered a stroke about 20 years ago. And he was a doctor no less. People who do not suffer migrane can't really understand what we go through. And especially a child back then.

Gotta love those doctors who told you that PMS was all in your mind, and that your migraines were not real--you were simply a hypochondriac cluttering up their office keeping really sick people from getting the proper help .

At any rate, I am lucky. I use injectable Imitrex, and it's worked perfectly since 1993 when I first had it prescribed.

East Hill

[Aggie_Ama]

I have yet to have a full-fledged one but my neurologist thinks they are a possibility. I get this weird tunneling vision followed by a headache that makes me irritable to noise and I just go to sleep. My neurologist and eye doctor refer to it as the "aura of a migrane". Not sure what that mumbo jumbo means but I think they are saying that it is symptomatic of migranes without developing one? Right now Excedrin Migraine works just fine although I had a prescription for Midrin for a while.

My college roommate's sister had the vomit inducing ones. She would go missing for a day or two which scared the ****ens out of us. Hers were so bad she would just darken her dorm room, lock the door and hide under a blanket (she had a single dorm, no roommate). I hate when people get a bad headache and refer to them as migranes. I haven't truely known a migrane but I know that they are not a headaches!

Listen to BMO3 though, that sounds like it may be a little more serious. ((HUGS))

[7rider]

Anyone else get migraines and if so how do you deal with them? The worst thing is when I get a really bad migraine, sometimes I can't co-ordinate what I'm doing or speak properly. I know what I want to say, but can't say it. It can be a bit scary

I get exertion migraines....migraines that come on after intense phyical efforts - like long fast bike rides in hot weather. Sometimes, 4 hours after the ride, my head will split open (okay, not really, but it certainly feels like it!) - nausea, sensitivity to light and sound. Ugh. I'll know it's coming on when I get this "hollowness" in me....like I feel like I'm really hungry, but I'm not. I generally drink 12 oz of Accelerade (a high-protein recovery drink) and start munching on the carbs after a ride to keep things in check. If all else fails, 600 mg of vitamin I (Ibuprofen) usually can do the trick.